The smart grid will generate data from hundreds of thousands of customers .....but how will we manage and utilize the mountains of data that is created?

Data Tsunami, Data Moutain, Tide of Data......however it is put thanks to the developments and recent advancements of the smart grid and smart meter, soon utilities will be flooded with data from every home a smart meter is in place. The million dollar question is how can they avoid being data rich, but information poor? .

The benefits of the smart grid do not lie in the quantities of data gathered, but the information that this data provides about consumption patterns and energy use, which in turn can result in benefits for the customers, increased energy effiicency, better energy management, and increased profits for the utilities. How this data is turned into valuable, and more importantly actionable, information and stored provides fantastic opportunities for vendors in terms of analysis and storage solutions

The smart grid represents a great opportunity to bring about a paradigm shift in the way in which consumers use electricity and understand their consumption habits. However the way in which smart meters' systems are designed and deployed present numerous challenges and risks for consumers. Data and information management is only one of them, but indeed one of the most important. This data from hundreds of different sources must be turned into information is analyzed and integrated in a manner that leads to action and results for the consumer and utility.

Massive amounts of data is forecast to swamp the existing infrastructure with the immenient roll out of the smart meter world wide. This poses a new challenge to all those involved. It has been mentioned the energy economy has moved on from a power economy to a data and power economy, which has the possibility of being of great value to customers, consumers, providers, and generators, if managed correctly. This is a new area, full of variability, differing expectations and goals. This conference aims to discuss how to maximise this opportunity.

8:30 Registration & Coffee

9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

9:10 Smart metering and Data Protection

• What are the privacy concerns?
• DPA and processing personal data
• Access to smart metering data and security

9:50 Data access and use – a consumer perspective

Zoe McLeod, Lead Smart Metering Programme, Consumer Focus

• Good practice guidelines for industry
• Latest regulatory proposals on data access and use at GB and EU level
• Monitoring rollout – update on consumer feedback/views on privacy and security

10:30 Morning Coffee

11:00 Smart Distribution Substations: Handling the data explosion

Simon Hodgson, Technical Manager, Nortech Management

• What are the types of instrumentation being installed and which parameters are being collected?
• How much data can a substation provide?
• How are network operators collecting this data?
• Where and how could the data be stored?
• How can the data be retrieved and displayed?

17:00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

8:30 Registration & Coffee

9:00 Chairman's Opening Remarks

Martin Ansell, Managing Director, LIG Consulting Limited

9:10 Information Management as a key enabler to Smart Grid in a distribution perspective

Einar Hoffmann, Managing IT Architect, DONG Energy AS

• The challenge of operating a distribution grid closer to Its capacity limit.
• Load-flow calculation/estimation can be the way to get the good insights of the grid loading. The downside is tough requirements to information management, though.
• The Smart Grid forerunner proof-of concept project at DONG Energy.
• The experience so far seen from an information perspective.
• Looking forward.

9:50 Future architecture for the Smart Grid

Teus de Zwart, ESNA Workgroup Standards, ESNA

• Scalability
• Event management
• Architecture, what to do centrally and what decentralized

10:30 Morning Coffee

11:00 Bridging the OT/IT gap for a successful Smartgrid deployment

• What do we exactly mean with OT and IT
• Different view angles of OT and IT on Smart Grid development
• A few examples of data and information management from the different perspectives
• Bridging the gap: what is really necessary

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